Steve Carell has recalled being warned by an A-list actor against trying out for the lead role in The Office, amid concerns that an American version of the hit British sitcom would flop.
“I remember [Paul] Rudd pulled me aside and was like, ‘Don’t do it, man. Don’t audition,’” Carell, 63, said on Tuesday’s episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast. “It was like, ‘There is no way.’”
